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...some of the little details are wanting. Scene changes could benefit from background music to mask the sounds of moving furniture and unzipping clothes. Jen's apartment seems to have only one room, including a miraculous bookcase which serves as not only a cupboard and a refrigerator, but also a stove for cooking invisible spaghetti. Joan seems to have no personal possessions. When she and Jen go to a cafe, Joan has neither purse nor pockets. Inexplicably, Jen and Jack are dressed identically in the final scene...

Author: By Emily J. Wood, | Title: 'Coffee' Is Harmless Drink | 11/9/1995 | See Source »

...secret the Russians failed to learn was that America's atomic cupboard was virtually bare at war's end. While the Soviets were gearing up their first reactor, the U.S. was shutting its own reactors down. "Everyone dropped their tools and went home when the whistle blew," said a disgruntled General Curtis LeMay, who was soon to head the U.S. Strategic Air Command, the force responsible for delivering the nation's nuclear weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: BRINK OF ARMAGEDDON | 8/21/1995 | See Source »

...glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the tea- cup opens A lane to the land of the dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: UNDER THE CRACK OF REALITY | 7/17/1995 | See Source »

Omri, played by Hal Scardino, is a young boy who brings his plastic action-figures to life by placing them inside a magic cupboard in his bedroom. He locks the door with a magic key, and when he opens the doors again, the figures come alive...

Author: By Alison D. Overholt, | Title: Indian Fails to Deliver Goods | 7/11/1995 | See Source »

Indian in the Cupboard succeeds by moving kids' entertainment away from kick-boxing superheroes. It's the kind of movie a parent would love to take their kids to, because they wouldn't be in danger of getting karate-chopped from the back seat during the car-ride home, or of going deaf from their kids screaming Disney tunes for the next six months. It was a great film idea. Too bad it didn...

Author: By Alison D. Overholt, | Title: Indian Fails to Deliver Goods | 7/11/1995 | See Source »

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